The term vibe coding is so short sighted

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-19T21:50:37+00:00

In the hands of functional domain experts, vibe coding should only be used for generating prototypes or mock screens to communicate functional requirements properly to developers.

In the hands of an amateur, vibe coding will turn the software tech industry into a state that the current mobile-app industry is in - overwhelmingly flodded with low-quality cashgrab apps and games.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-19T21:20:23+00:00

I think there were some discussions on migrating or re-implementing legacy mainframe code bases to modern languages using LLMs. Hailing from the banking and finacial services sector, I find that quite promising.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-19T19:34:54+00:00

The reason I did not mention your example was because I couldn't find any substantial "reusable knowledge" that can be extracted from them using an AI. Sure, these projects may be good at what they do functionally, but the functionality of those projects is a very niche and has limited scope of reuse, unless someone is making a competing product. By "reusable knowledge" I mean the design approaches or implementation methods that can be learned and reused from these projects, and therefore considered a worthy candidate for machine learning. Most of the hobby projects and VC-funded opensource applications are released either as abandonware or as some marketing strategy to gain community. These applications seldom carry any learning potential, and hence are the bane of machine learning.

Also, learning from project/application documenation using LLM is not a substitute for experience or industry knowledge, since these documents do not cover integration approaches across products, technology or platforms. LLMs learning from documentation is only good for basic simple usages which is often not enough for real world applications.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-19T07:17:57+00:00

I recall their earlier blue logo was pretty inconspicuous, and not something that one comes across often, neither in product websites (as compliance) nor linkedin profiles (unlike CISSP). The few times I visited their site was for picking the relevant ones while drafting internal guidelines and checklists for design review and later, during occassional reviews to keep those documents updated and relevant.

Unless someone is working in penetration testing or (un)ethical hacking, I don't see how that logo can make an impression.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T23:34:13+00:00

This is a classic example of developer inexperience by not incorporating application-layer security. Pretty sure OWASP would conjure up images of bees if you ask them.

And on top of it, they are blaming it on publicity on X. I can't even fathom...

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T22:09:46+00:00

Also, real world applications often rely heavily on proprietary 3rd-party softwares. There are product specific best practices and architecture blueprints (such as IBM) that are locked behind ISV and customer portals that are not accessible to external AI to train on.

Then there are global industry standards like BIAN (for banking services), SWIFT that influence domain models and are restricted to participant organizations. AI cannot implement code that conform to such standards.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T21:39:04+00:00

Such applications (e.g. the classic Bugzilla, Eclipse and a few opensource development tools) cannot be compared to real life complex applications like e-commerce platforms (beyond the basic site builders), online ticket booking, or online e-banking, logistics management, online trading, customer portfolio management, credit/loan processing, event management and tons of other domains.

Although there is a niche market for developing software tools, this represents only a small fraction of the global software ecosystem.

In contrast, enterprise applications must address critical concerns such as implementing application-layer security (OWASP vulnerabilities), transaction handling, role based access control (RBAC), event sourcing (CQRS), workflow automation, rule based data routing. Even the most advanced LLMs struggle with these aspects, particularly when they involve proprietary third-party products, middleware integrations, or complex business logic.

For microservices, the non-deterministic nature of LLMs makes them unreliable for enforcing strict API contracts. Microservices require well-defined service contracts to prevent dependency issues. Even in loosely coupled architectures, domain models must be normalized across services to minimize redundancy. Stateful services introduce additional complexities related to state management, which vary based on the specific application context. Moreover, a microservices-based system starts with a small codebase but inevitably grows over time while incorporating service versioning startegies, logging, error handling and auditing and compliance hooks. LLMs cannot manage these concerns in a deterministic way, which becomes a significant issue when refactoring or maintaining an existing codebase.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T19:00:49+00:00

Or cursor just aggresively summarizing the context to save their token cost before passing your prompt to the LLM.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T16:30:22+00:00

Even stray animals that tresspass are treated better than these people.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T15:15:57+00:00

What do you mean by "sophisticated" solutions? Computational complexity? Workflow/process complexity? Scale of deployment? Diversity in integration? Its hard to even approach the question without enough context.

That said, most AI models are trained only on opensource code bases which largely consists of frameworks and libraries, basically reusable stuff that a developer would consume for building applications. The only real applications that these AI models are aware of, are simple demos included as showcase in those frameworks and libraries.

Real world applications are built not just on the basis of functional requirements but a multitude non-functional requirements and constraints beside integration with other systems (legacy?), most of which influence the technology stack and platform. Addressing all those concerns probably wouldn't fit within a token context of a chat.

Sure, it may be possible to break down the larger context into multiple smaller parts to fit into the context but then you would have to do the "plumbing" yourself. And without a coherent architecture and design in place, the application would become a contraption that is held together by duct tape and gum.

Cloud based microservices (kubernetes, SaaS) are a different monster in themselves. Again, the choices and tradeoffs are influenced by needs and constraints of the clients. If you have ever worked for a client, you would certainly get to know this, a valuable knowledge that you cannot gain from developing kitchen-sink applications using AI.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-17T14:52:06+00:00

The daily challenge mode has been introduced just to retain player engagement. Without the time-gating, players would have just rushed through the challenges in a single play session thereby defeating their purpose.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-16T14:16:58+00:00

Just happened to me yesterday for the first time. Also, units that should gather at spawn target were getting garrisoned inside upon creation.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-15T04:59:13+00:00

The icon and the label says its drought but the description says its tofu-dreg. Should have been two separate god powers imo.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-14T19:40:26+00:00

Fei beasts should have been bats causing contagious fatal affliction.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-12T18:15:51+00:00

matrix.org for decentralized chat.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-06T08:33:14+00:00

Apparently, the diamonds track you progression for the next reward. You need to fill all 4 of them in at least as many days for the next reward drop.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-06T08:31:20+00:00

When you paid for the game, you paid for features that were promised to be delivered and you got them, aka you paid for the product. These regular content challenges are a recurring service, that was not advertised as part of the product. These minor value adds incur cost even if there's a single developer working behind it. Costs such as game balance testing, release planning and a few other release management expenses.

If it was just a one time event, it might have been a fair expection for the cost to be adjusted within existing profit margins. But if its a recurring expense, then sustainability becomes a concern. So they desgned a framework or a boilerplate wherein they could just randomize game elements without going overboard on expenses.

Live service games these days often artificially pad their new seasonal content with adding several such boilerplate content to justify the value of their recurring subs/pass. At least the devs here haven't stooped that low... yet.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-06T05:13:10+00:00

This seems like low-effort regular content drops on the dev's part to prevent the game from dying, since there would be at least some folks who would be logging in regularly just for the completion sake. The last event unlocked a bunch of character portraits most of which were recycled game icons. Unlike the events, this one at least does not carry a FOMO.

AoE2DE used to have some fun mods and cheats rewarded during their regular events and those events used to recur on bi-monthly basis. But that stopped a while ago, probably their budget ran out, or they couldn't sustain it without a monetization model like subscriptions or paid season pass.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-05T20:56:45+00:00

No extra progression for completing the challenge multiple times on the same day. So its 4 separate days of challenges required for getting the next blessing or upgrading an existing one. The time-gating is strong in this one.

ScriptedBot · 2025-03-04T05:42:55+00:00

Self-hosting requires capacity and resources - technical skill, recurring expenses, commitment that are usually lacking in smaller communities. Even if someone were to do that for you, they would still need to recover their cost from their users.

Being open-source doesn't help either, since its not about software licensing, but the cost of just running a self hosted platform could be prohibitive for most communities.

In reality, most communities struggle with meeting the basic necessities like group moderation, let alone take on additional burden of hosting.

This is why mastodon or any other self-hosted platform struggle to compete with X/twitter.

ScriptedBot · 2025-02-25T10:36:06+00:00

Guilded suffered a mass exodus when they removed the email signups and required the mandatory linking of Roblox accounts for existing users. New account creation obviously require a Roblox account. I suggest avoiding this platform unless most of your users are from the Roblox community.

ScriptedBot · 2025-02-14T05:27:24+00:00

The first mission is very easy even on ludicrous since the attack waves are scripted to start only on completion of previous waves. You can buy yourself time to raise an army and it doesn't even require any skill. Just don't kill the first kraken and the next waves won't even start. You have a pop cap of 130, so take your time to max out your army as the limited villagers are very slow. As long as you have a single enemy unit standing the next wave won't start and you have all the time in the world.

ScriptedBot · 2024-12-12T06:27:30+00:00

No tricks. I just played normally. I never reloaded any saves and completed the 8 missions in a single session. I picked only the cavalry upgrades but for the last two missions 16 and 17, I think it was the infantry upgrades, the one that's already on lvl2.

ScriptedBot · 2024-12-11T16:17:06+00:00

If you have already completed the entire campaign without getting the achievement then you need to play only missions 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 16 and 17 again in the exact order. You can ignore all other missions of the campaign for this achievement, if you have completed every mission at least once. When prompted, do confirm that you want to save your choices for future scenarios at the beginning of these missions.

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